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2022-05-28 Awakening Joy as a Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:17
James Baraz
In his teaching on The Four Wise Efforts, the Buddha taught us to maintain and increase wholesome states (kusala) when they arise. This talk explains how to make that a central part of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy and Wellbeing

2022-05-28 Finding my Way 41:17
Dawn Mauricio
True North Insight Embodying Metta

2022-05-28 Suffering is to be Understood 26:12
Laura Bridgman
Understanding suffering is like loosening a tangled ball of threads. The Indriyas help us find balance and navigate even the most subtle mind states that arise.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-28 Loving kindness practice 27:50
Leela Sarti
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-28 Guided meditation on "the now of all time " 24:26
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-28 The now of all time 41:40
Rodney Smith
As we distance ourselves from now, the reification of thought, the world, and ourselves manifest - all locked within the forever of time.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-28 Crossing the Floods 54:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn explores the Buddha's famous prescription: 'By not pushing forward and by not standing still, I managed to cross the floods'.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-28 Getting Started: Learning the Basics of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:05
Diana Winston
This first day instructions guides students who are just starting out with their practice. We learn to find our meditation anchor and work with distraction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy and Wellbeing

2022-05-28 Devotional Imaging - Inviting the Indriya (with 30 min meditation) 39:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Sacred images can brighten the mind and allow helpful energies to arise. We can summon the indriya through this means. With devotional practice, we dislodge the self from its center point, revealing the energy of spiritual desire (chanda).
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-27 Q&A 28:17
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 How wide can the space of embracing you spoke of be for people (like prisoners for example) who may not have the present capacity for insight and who seem not ready to face trauma. Perhaps they will never be ready. O1:44 Q2 When and how in meditation and life, should we put boundaries around unhelpful things without a pushing away quality? 06:10 Q3 Could you say more about the relationship between the composed part and the part that’s in disaray as more important than either of the two. 8:52 Q4 Could we hear more about jealousy please and the associated difficult shame reactions. 16:09 Q5 Does any kind of volition disrupt bodily alignment or subtle bodily energies, or can the well instructed person conceive or even act without resultant misalignment?
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-27 Sutta Pitaka, Breath meditation, Dhamma talk on the Uluru Statement of the Heart 1:22:55
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Unboxing the Malaysian edition of Bhante's translations of the Sutta Pitaka. Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on the Uluru Statement of the Heart, by Aboriginal people. The wisdom of first nations people and Buddhism.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • The Uluru Statement by Aboriginal people (Link)
  • Living in a Land That Demands Movement by Dr. Noel Nannup (Link)
  • Religious leaders support constitutional referendum by Australian religious leaders (Link)

2022-05-27 Integrating the Faculties with Meeting Painful Emotion 26:05
Laura Bridgman
We deepen our relationship with the Indriya’s qualities in our body, revealing our normal worldly patterns and finding our center. An experience of jealousy is described as an example.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-27 The Kindness of Wisdom 51:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Discernment is easily biased by the five aggregates, especially mental constructions such as uncertainty and ‘not quite right yet’. Contemplating citta we can understand suffering rather than adopt a notion of solving it.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-27 Dedicating practice to all beings 48:38
Leela Sarti
Basic human needs. How to be human and embody the qualities of awakening?
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-27 Enoughness: guided meditation 26:27
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-27 Enoughness 42:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 The Buddha and War. 23:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha was involved in disputes and war in various ways. He gave the principles by which we shojld behave, but would not make decisions for us.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2022-05-26 Guided meditation on resolving distance 24:47
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 Resolving distance 37:26
Rodney Smith
We take distance as a factor of reality when in fact it is a mental concept.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 Orientation Towards Completion and Ease 60:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Developing facility with the indriya – faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness and discernment – supports awareness of skilful states flowing and fulfilling themselves within a mindful embodiment.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-26 Guided Standing Meditation 42:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Self massage helps body awareness arise. With mental intention, alternately directing and releasing activation energy around the body, we increase connectivity and provide a broad basis for mindfulness.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Q&A 23:45
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 Please say more about sankara and their physiological / psychosomatic body links; 18:06 Q2 I have a question about tears borne from love and grieving. How does this fit with equanimity?
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.) 21:25
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-25 Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear 46:46
Tara Brach
We are living with the threat of increasing, dramatic suffering around the globe. This talk looks at the direct ways our meditation practices, supported by findings of neuroscience, can help us find resilience and an open heart in the face of an uncertain and frightening future. It includes a number of short reflections and meditations.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-25 Exploring the Nature of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:08
Mark Coleman
How nature reveals the ephemeral, impermanent, interconnected nature of who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

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